The Man At Microsoft Charged With Destroying IE6 458
Barence writes "The man in charge of Internet Explorer has told PC Pro that he's been tasked with destroying IE6. Internet Explorer 6 continues to be the most used browser version in the world at the ripe old age of nine. IE6's position as the default browser in Windows XP means many companies still cling to the browser. 'Part of my job is to get IE6 share down to zero as soon as possible,' said Ryan Gavin, head of the Internet Explorer business group. Microsoft has also been giving further previews of Internet Explorer 9, with demonstrations showing two 720p HD videos running simultaneously on a netbook, thanks to IE9's GPU-accelerated graphics."
Destroy it by removing it (Score:1, Interesting)
Finland is still awesome in this matter (Score:1, Interesting)
I had hard time believing those stats as FireFox had only about 25% market share and IE appears to be used by over half the people. Both of these figures sounded very odd compared to what I've seen. But I guess that is true for the world, then. Anyways, I googled browser share by country and Firefox has about 55% share in Finland [statcounter.com] and has stayed constant for at least a year. IE on the other hand is used by one third of the population and has been in slow but steady decline for the whole year.
Re:Karma is a bitch... (Score:1, Interesting)
Karma is a bitch...
Tell me about it. My "bad" slashdot karma won't go away anytime soon with all my crappy posts.
Re:IE6 is NOT the most popular web browser... (Score:5, Interesting)
In any case, they just have to issue a service pack which replaces IE6 by IE9.
not so fast... (Score:1, Interesting)
Tell this twit, before he destroys IE6 that SOME of us use it because our CLIENTS use QUICK BOOKS 5, and while we might want them to upgrade, if they fail to, and upgrade IE, QUICKBOOKS NO LONGER WORKS. If Microsoft was in the OS business instead of generating a cash cow both for themselves and the software companies that play according to their rules, they would take steps to allow others to upgrade as they could afford to, instead of being FORCED, in the middle of a recession, so they can make more bank.
Re:Support IEX9 on XP (Score:3, Interesting)
Uses, or requires? It should be trivial to NOT require those technologies.
Re:First HTML 4, then HTML 5 (Score:3, Interesting)
I just tried a couple quick tests of two irritating shortcomings which I had remembered off the top of my head: the <object> element and 'inherit' as a CSS property value.
They actually do work. So I retract my complaint. I can only offer the meager defense that I tried those things many times as various IE versions appeared over the years, including in recent years. But clearly not recently enough.
Re:IE6 is NOT the most popular web browser... (Score:2, Interesting)
What if MS did something "outside the box", like maybe let version 6 and version 8/9 be installed at the same time?
And push out IE 9 as an automatic update for everybody (removing IE 6), while giving companies a way to keep IE 6 installed?
IE 9 requires Vista, which came with IE 7 (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Support IEX9 on XP (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:With IE6 compatibility mode. (Score:3, Interesting)
What's the problem using Firefox, Chrome, or Opera for browsing and using IE6 for those applications that require it?
It almost seems as if people are deliberately avoiding the easy and obvious solution so they can complain about MS.
Re:IE6 is NOT the most popular web browser... (Score:3, Interesting)
Of course, they're going from one insecure browser (IE6) to another insecure browser (IE8) (gotta have ActiveX).
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